Rectal instrument.



No. 694,97l. Patented Mar. n, 1902. S. L. KISTLER.

RECTAL INSTRUMENT.

Application filed July 8, 19014 (Ila Modql.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Prion,

SAMUEL L. KISTLER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

RECTAL lNSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters 1?ateut No. 694,971, dated March 1 1, 1902.

Application filed July 8, 1901.

To all whom it natty/concern:

Be it known that I, SAM EL L. KISTLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rectal Instruments, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to instruments for treating rectal diseases, such as piles, fissures, &c.; and the object thereof is to provide a simple instrument by means of which constant application of unguents may be made to the affected parts and which maybe retained in place Without external aid. I accomplish these objects by the rectal instrumeut described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my instrument. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof.

In the drawings, A is an imperforate reservoir having a screw-threaded opening in its base, preferably pear-shaped in form,adapted to hold a considerable quantity of unguent, which is screwed upon the hollow stem 13, having its opposite end closed and provided with a base-piece B, adapted to fit against the body and prevent the instrument from passing into the body. In the stem, intermediate the base and the reservoir, are a number of slots 0, through which the unguent passes to the parts to be treated.

In the operation of my device the reservoir and stem are filled with ung'uent and the stem is screwed into the reservoir and the reservoir is inserted into the rectal canal and passes up beyond the inner sphincter muscle, which leaves the stem in contact with the sphincter muscles and the parts therebetween. It is principally these parts which become afitected with hemorrhoids, fissures,

Serial No. 67,565. (No model.)

. Patent, is

1. In an instrument for applying unguents to the rectum, the combination of an imperforate hollow pear-shaped reservoir provided with an opening in its base for the introduction thereinto of an unguent, of a hollow stem 1 of uniform diameter opening into said reservoir and removably connected to the base of the reservoir and being of less diameter than the largest diameter of the reservoir, said stem being closed at its other end and being provided with a base-piece afiixed to the closed end of the stem and perforations intermediate the base-piece and reservoir.

-2. In a rectal instrument the combination with an imperforate hollow reservoir provided with a screw-threaded opening at its base, with a hollow perforate stem of uniform diameter opening into the reservoir and being of less diameter than the largest diameter of the reservoir and closed at its other end; said stem being provided at its closed end with a base-piece.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 3d day of July, 1901.

S. L. KISTLER. Witnesses: V

G. E. HARPHAM, MATTIE McGINms. 

